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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them. There are actual breaks in the narrative between the first three parts, but Part Three's narrative continues into Part Four without an authorial break (only an editorial one). In the «Introduction» of the 1916 publication of the Autobiography, editor F. W. Pine wrote that Franklin's biography provided the «most remarkable of all the remarkable histories of our self-made men» with Franklin as the greatest exemplar. The most famous writings of Benjamin Franklin include: Silence Dogood letters, A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain, The Busy-Body letters, Poor Richard's Almanack, The Drinker's Dictionary, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc., The Way to Wealth, Pennsylvania Chronicle, Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One, Proposed alliance with the Iroquois, A Letter To A Royal Academy, Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America, The Morals of Chess, An Address to the Public, A Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Bagatelles and Satires, Franklin as a journalist and many more.

Mark Twain began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of "Chapters from my Autobiography". He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once he’d passed his 70th year, that a lot of the material might be OK to publish before his departure. While much of the material consists of stories about the people, places and incidents of his long life, there’re also several sections from his daughter.

The book bears no relationship to Twain's actual life. The two short stories present fictional characters who are supposedly part of Twain's lineage.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoires de la vie privee de Benjamin Franklin : ecrits par lui-meme et adresses a son fils : suivis d'un precis historique de sa vie politique, et de plusieurs pieces, relatives a ce Pere de la Liberte».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin : Vol. 1 : now first published from the original MSS. compising the private correspondence and public negotiations of Dr. Franklin, and a selection from his political, philosophical and miscellaneous works / written by himself to a late period, and continued to the time of his death, by his grandson, William Temple Franklin».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin : Vol. 3 : now first published from the original MSS. compising the private correspondence and public negotiations of Dr. Franklin, and a selection from his political, philosophical and miscellaneous works / written by himself to a late period, and continued to the time of his death, by his grandson, William Temple Franklin».